Kevin O'Connor

Kevin is the Senior Director, Cloud Solutions Group at Connection with over 20 years of experience in the areas of software, cloud computing, and data center technology. He has been a contributor to Apache open source projects, the Java Specification Working Group, and AIIM. In his free time, he enjoys baseball, hockey, surfing, and spending time with his family.

Articles by Kevin O'Connor

Learn More from Our Latest Survey Results

Has your organization considered making the move to cloud? Maybe you’ve even started along the journey and are curious about how well other organizations are handling the transition. According to a recent survey we conducted with IDG, over 75% of IT decision makers say that their cloud-based IT initiatives have met or exceeded their initial expectations.

Has the Death of Private Cloud Been Exaggerated?

It seems nobody is faster to predict imminent death than the IT industry. Tape, mainframes, disks, PCs, smartphones, and the Internet have all survived their obituaries—and now we can add private cloud to the list of technologies buried before their time.

“Private cloud is a concept propped up by legacy vendors desperate to provide enterprise IT groups a reason to keep buying their servers, storage, and network products—and that’s where the problem lies. It’s a solution in search of a problem. And not a very effective solution at that.”

See If It Makes Sense for Your Organization

One of the benefits of a VDI/DaaS for organizations is that data is never saved locally to devices. For mobile devices/laptops that can suddenly turn up missing, information can’t be compromised, because it is only displayed as pixels on a screen. The very nature of remote data/local presentation inherent to VDI/DaaS is especially valuable if there is a failure to a desktop or other device. Because end users can access their virtual desktop from another device, they can be more productive—especially in the architectural and construction field—where mobility can be of significant value.

Technology for Today’s Work Force

Your network can be fairly described as “converged” these days, with voice, Internet, LAN, and WAN services available over a common telecommunications infrastructure. IP-based technology is the key—and that technology is at the root of today’s Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) deployments.

Don’t Want to Make the Move?

It’s probably on your to-do list to design a go-forward strategy for your Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployment. But it’s probably behind the 103 other things also on that list. At Connection, our experts will tell you that IaaS is the true foundation for shifting your infrastructure to a cloud computing platform. So how do you get started on the path to IaaS? Read on to learn more.

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